Enter key pressed event handler

Question

I want to capture the text from the textbox when enter key is hit. I am using WPF/visual studio 2010/.NET 4. I dont know what event handler to be used in the tag ? I als

Answer 1

The KeyDown event only triggered at the standard TextBox or MaskedTextBox by "normal" input keys, not ENTER or TAB and so on.

One can get special keys like ENTER by overriding the IsInputKey method:

public class CustomTextBox : System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
{
    protected override bool IsInputKey(Keys keyData)
    {
        if (keyData == Keys.Return)
            return true;
        return base.IsInputKey(keyData);
    }
}

Then one can use the KeyDown event in the following way:

CustomTextBox ctb = new CustomTextBox();
ctb.KeyDown += new KeyEventHandler(tb_KeyDown);

private void tb_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
    {
          //Enter key is down

          //Capture the text
          if (sender is TextBox)
          {
              TextBox txb = (TextBox)sender;
              MessageBox.Show(txb.Text);
          }
    }
}